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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The box or sheath, of curved upper outline, which covers a paddle-wheel of a side-wheel steamer, to protect it and to keep it from throwing water on board the vessel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a wooden covering for the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a wooden covering for the upper part of a paddlewheel
- n. a wooden covering for the upper part of a paddlewheel
Examples
“The stout old pilot was the real skipper; and now that the vessel had come to anchor, he turned from his lighter duties to the grave pastime of the day, and fished earnestly through a large hole in the paddlebox, -- the porgies that came to his allurements arriving at their destination by a series of flapping manoeuvres from blade to blade of the wheel.”
“While I stood admiring this work of art, a fat wheezy steamtug, with the word AJAX in staring black letters on the paddlebox, came puffing up alongside the Typhoon.”
“When the steamer returned she had scarcely a vestige of bulwark or paddlebox left: all had been smashed and carried away by the force of the sea.”
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